He worried that in the new conurban "zone," stretching around the globe and displacing the geographies of the European metropolis, there was no longer any room for critical activity, leaving the critic no other choice than to bear witness to his own obsolescence.

Our texts for the Resurrection of our Lord gift us with the faithful endeavors of those who have gone before us to bear witness to and make real the experience of new life in the crucified and risen One.

However beautiful and haunting the images here, many of them are associated with historical pain or horror, or as Marker himself puts it, "The balance sheet to which most of the texts and images on this disc bear witness is totally disastrous.

But the empty screen also serves as a visceral allegory of the fate implied by Jaar's texts: a future in which the capacity to bear witness to one's reality in the form of an image--and, by extension, to imagine a possible alternative to that reality--has been permanently withdrawn.

In this secular country, which grants religious liberty, but bans active proselytism and public manifestations of religion, John Paul II also asserted "the right of believers to bear witness to their faith" and warned of the dangers of "slavish conformity" to Western culture.

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